Science Experts Network Curriculum

Vitae (SciENcv)

New Biosketch Format

Must use the NIH biographical sketch starting May 25, 2015.

Personal Statement section now includes up to 4 citations to substantiate your claim.

Contribution to Science section

Replaces the former section Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications.

Describe five of your most significant contributions to science.

Useful Features of the ScienCV

You control the content of your SciENcv profile and can edit it as needed. This includes the ability to hide selective citations or add non-NIH research awards.

You choose whether or not to make your SciENcv profile visible to the public. It is private by default.

You can create multiple profiles within SciENcv so that each biosketch is tailored to suit a particular grant application.

You can export your SciENcv profile as a PDF file and use it when submitting a grant application through the grants.gov website.

Once you create a SciENcv profile, it's static, but you can reuse it or parts of it.

When you add references to My Bibliography, those references will also be available in SciENcv. Click on "show/hide entries" to see them.

NIH Biographical Sketch Data

Enter or import your biographical data once, then convert it into a format that can be used when submitting NIH or NSF grant applications.

How to create the Sketch?

Create the profile from scratch,

Use an existing source of data (e.g., ORCID or eRA Commons), or

Use an existing SCienCV profile.

From Scratch

External Data Source

Copy an Existing Profile

Personal Statement Include up to four peer-

reviewed publications to highlight work experience and qualifications.

Add the citations.

Select the citations.

Display the citations.

Contribution to Science Researchers describe five of their

most significant contributions to science. Each contribution entry has two parts: a description and relevant references of up to four peer-reviewed publications.

Select Contribution to Science.

Add entries to Contribution to Science

(Two parts: Description and citation).

Delete unused tabs.

Done.

Setting up a My NCBI account

Log in to My NCBI using the NIH Login; enter your eRA Commons ID and password.

Search for all of your publications in PubMed. Use the “send to” menu on the search results page to send the references to My Bibliography.

Click on “My NCBI” in the upper right corner. Look for the My Bibliography box.

Click on “Manage My Bibliography.” It should be populated with all of your references.

If you have authored additional publications that aren’t included in PubMed, you can manually add them to My Bibliography by clicking on “Add Citation.”

At the top of the page is a link to make your bibliography “public.” When you click on this, it will show you the “public URL” that you can paste into your biosketch.

Keep your My Bibliography account up-to-date by periodically adding citations for your newly-published articles.

Other Resources

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sciencv/

SciENcv YouTube video tutorial

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK53595/